Table 7.

Improvement of Deteriorative Activity of Organisms by Interspecific Transfer of Genetic Elements

Organisms		Function	References
Donor	Acceptor
Prokaryotes
Clostridium perfringens	Escherichia coli	Azoreductase	Rafii and Coleman (1999) [212]
Bacillus sp.	E. coli	Azoreductase	Suzuki et al. (2001) [213]
Rhodococcus sp.	E. coli	Azoreductase	Chang and Lin (2001) [214]
Xenophilus azovorans	E. coli	Azoreductase	Blumel et al. (2002) [215]
E. coli	Sphingomonas xenophaga	Flavin reductase	Russ et al. (2000) [216]
Agrobacterium rhizogenes	Mentha puligeum	Tolerance to R–478	Strycharz and Shetty (2002) [115]
Eukaryotes
Geotrichum candidum	Aspergillus oryzae	Peroxidase	Sugano et al. (2000) [217]
Ceriporiopsis subvermispora	A. nidulans	Peroxidase	Larrondo et al. (2003) [218]
C. subvermisopra	A. oryzae	Peroxidase	Larrondo et al. (2001a) [219]
Coprinus cinereus	Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Laccase	Cherry et al. (1999) [220]
C. cinereus	A. oryzae	Laccase	Schneider et al. (1999) [221]
Coriolus versicolor	Nicotiana tabacum	Peroxidase	Iimura et al. (2002) [116]
Phanerochaete chrysosporium	A. nidulans	Peroxidase	Larrondo et al. (2001b) [222]
Pycnoporus cinnabarinus	Pychia pastoris	Laccase	Otterbein et al. (2000) [223]
P. cinnabarinus	A. niger	Laccase	Record et al. (2002) [224]
Pleurotus sajor-caju	P. pastoris	Laccase	Soden et al. (2001) [225]
Trametes versicolor	S. cerevisiae	Laccase	Larsson et al. (2001) [226]
T. versicolor	P. pastoris	Laccase	O’Callaghan et al. (2002) [227]
T. versicolor	P. pastoris	Laccase	Hong et al. (2002) [228]
Armoracia rusticana	S. cerevisiae	Peroxidase	Morawski et al. (2001) [114]